TOP 5 - Quotes from the week's newsmakers

Top 5

Quotes from the week's newsmakers

1. 'The company doesn't possess a portfolio of brands that are capable of generating significant improvements in sales and profitability.' -- Greggory Warren, a Morningstar analyst, talking about Sara Lee Corp.'s makeover

2. 'We're No. 3 in the United States, but we're a long, long way behind New York and Los Angeles in terms of revenue generated.' -- Bruce Iglauer, president of Alligator Records, about a report that shows Chicago lags behind smaller cities in nurturing and profiting from its homegrown music community.

3. 'A century ago if you were an artist or a writer, Paris was a magnet drawing people. Today, Northwestern is the magnet drawing people in nanotechnology.' -- J. Fraser Stoddart, hired by Northwestern University to lead its nanotechnology drive

4. 'The market action we've seen in the past two weeks is more than we've seen in the past two years.' -- Chicago options trader Ben Londergan, on gyrations in the financial markets